Oregon junior pitcher Erik Stavert was a seventh-round selection by the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday with the 211th pick of the Major League Baseball first-year player draft.

Stavert went 5-6 with a 3.04 earned-run average for the Ducks (14-42), earning more than one-third of Oregon's victories. The 6-foot-2 right-hander is expected to sign with the Rockies and forgo his senior season with the Ducks.

Stavert arrived at Oregon after spending two seasons at Chabot College in Hayward, Calif. He was initially the Ducks' No. 2 starter, but became the team's ace for most of the Pacific-10 Conference season.

In the final Pac-10 statistics, Stavert ranked ninth in ERA, fourth in innings pitched (94 2/3) and 10th in strikeouts (82).

Stavert has until Aug. 17 to sign with the Rockies or choose to remain at Oregon.

"We'll support Erik whatever direction he goes," Ducks coach George Horton said. "We'd love to have him back obviously. But we'd also love, if the money's right, for him to go on to the professional level. We would feel like we were a vehicle that helped him attain one of his lifetime goals."

Horton knows how important it is for incoming recruits to see older players in the program get drafted. In Horton's final three years at Cal State Fullerton, 38 of his players signed with a major league team.

"It was pretty much a professional factory," Horton said. "That absolutely helped. That's one of the reasons that a lot kids came to Cal State Fullerton."